Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()
When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().
Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.
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Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.4.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()
When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().
Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.
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